Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, earned a degree in Law from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) at 21,...
Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye
But in the format of legislative draft, there is always this window left; that when you are investigating and you want to prosecute, you can do so under your own law or any other law that prohibits that conduct. That is why both commissions have the window in their legislation. The reason is to give law enforcement agency the flexibility to be able to conclude their work.
It is a combination of different factors. First, over the years, because of lack of political will to deal with issues around corruption, it has escalated. Impunity has also come along with it. When you have those two factors, there will be more reportage of the issue. In the eye of the public, it is an increase; there is no doubt that this has happened in our system.
On the other hand, there are new areas of corruption coming up. We have now seen the link between corruption and terrorism. We have seen the link with digital and cyber crimes. These are emerging areas that we must also tackle. Corruption fighting is a cardinal agenda of the current government. Buhari said he would deal with it because it is undermining development.It depends on what they mean.
When corruption is systemic as we have it in Nigeria, you cannot solve it by enforcement alone. Many of the institutions and structures you need are probably compromised. You need investigating capacity, prosecution, judiciary and other agencies. When corruption is systemic, you can assume that some of these are in one way or the other contaminated.
People say anti-corruption agencies are used by the government in power to fight opponent of the government. How would you react to this? Experience has shown us that people who are so politically astute and who have managed to dance away from being prosecuted for their offences are now being prosecuted for their offences. In order words, let everybody be assured that with your wealth and connections, you can only delay justice, you cannot avoid it.The architecture for justice system in Nigeria needs to be reviewed. It is work in progress and we have to keep at it.
I don’t know about stepping on toes. A lot of people have misread the intention of this issue. What is our focus as a commission? We want to look at the kind of corruption that affects ordinary people. There has been a lot of focus on grand corruption and politically exposed persons. I am not saying they are not relevant.
We will also look at Universal Basic Education Commission projects. UBEC has supported projects that have not been done and money has been put behind it. Already, we have signal; some legislators and other people have been coming to say that they have done their projects or that they have gone back to site. We hope that the recalcitrant ones will go back to site before we get to them. This is going to be a challenging assignment but we look forward to doing it.
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